A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in songs and poems and live on beyond their inevitable endings, as Shakespeare’s titular sonnet 18 also suggests. In Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s metafictional essay, a female narrator who wishes to tell the story of a love between two men encounters a polyamorous chorus of lovers, and this oft-told tale is multiplied. In Club Scheherazade, there is no protagonist, and every song has various versions. Heteronormative dramaturgy is challenged polyphonically and across a range of media: lovers ask each other about threesomes, Grindr contacts and past dates. Pop clichés are twisted, heartache permeates the men’s singing, and poems by Wadih Saadeh are read out while a lover’s dirty laundry is aired. The narrator mischievously tries for a happy ending as her characters exit the story. “If pain could be forgotten through words,” we hear at one point, “no lover would ever have to walk away wounded.”
故事开始于2008年,索罗门(岑勇康 Harry Shum Jr. 饰)是一名厨师,在命运的安排之下,他邂逅了名叫珍妮弗(杰西卡·罗德 Jessica Rothe 饰)的女子,情投意合的两人很快就走到了一起。他们之间的恋情受到了双方家人以及朋友们的祝福,在恋爱了数年之后,他们都认定了对方就是自己此生想要携手共渡的那个人,他们决定结婚。 索罗门和珍妮弗将婚期定在了2015年的8月,哪知道就在婚期将近的节骨眼上,索罗门被查出患上了肝癌,而且已经发展到晚期了。留给这对恋人的时间已经不多了,可即便如此,珍妮弗依然还是决定要成为索罗门的妻子,两人将婚期提前到了2015年的4月。
At 2 Ela lost her ability of seeing and hearing because of a severe illness. And then she became a total disappointment of her family due to her untamed behaviors. But everything changed after an unorthodox teacher stepped into their lives to educate Ela while healing himself.